Multi Cam mode

DBoydNL wrote on 3/30/2011, 4:51 PM

I am using Movie Edit Pro 17. The box indicates that I can access multi cam mode (it shows the icon on the screenshot). However, when I start the program that icon is missing. When I access Help and look for synchronize, the program tells me to read the topic: "Synchronize video object using the audio track." However, that topic does not exist. When I check the website, I first get all manner of German articles. Finally get to an English site, and find a PDF file somebody submitted in French. After much trouble I discover it tells me to click on the "two camera's icon" and displays a screen shot that shows that icon and a little triangle next to the track number. I have neither of those. The printed manual offers no help, I have checked every single keyword I can think of.

 

Why is it impossible to find out how to do this?

 

David

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yvon-robert wrote on 3/30/2011, 8:59 PM

Hi,

Just to help you David

You must place on track 1 and track 3 the 2 movies coming from each camera the audio must contain a clap (hand clap or clap tool to align the movie start on the timeline.

I saw in the past the procedure how this work but my previous software was only for one camera I made this by hand and work perfectly.

Regards,

YR

yvon-robert wrote on 3/30/2011, 9:51 PM

Hi,

Check in the french movie if you place movie camera 1 (main) on track 3 and movie camera 2 on track 5 the clap sound if use to align both movies on the right starting frame. Movies are just place over each other on different track.

 

Regards,

Yr

DBoydNL wrote on 3/31/2011, 10:31 AM

Hmm, I have no idea what "the french movie" is or where I'd find that. The fact remains, that my version doesn't have the 2 camera icon, nor the little triangles next to the track number. I have placed the two video objects on Tracks 1 and 3 (the audio of course being on tracks 2 and 4), but I still don't have the icons to enter MultiCam mode. I understand that I can use a loud noise (like beginning to speak - the video's have already been recorded, so I can't go back and add a handclap) and align the two video objects manually. I can even hear both audio tracks simultaenously, so I can verify that they are synchronized.

However, I was under the impression that my version of Movie Edit Pro 17 HD had this feature and it seems now that it does not. At least I can't find how to do it in the Manual or the Help files (even though there is a reference to it, but the refered to topic does not exist).

Could the problem be, that the main file (with a closely miked audio track) was recorded at a WMV file, and the other video file was taken from the DVD it was recorded on by my camers (so a VOB file, or possibly an MPG)? At this point I am grasping at straws to try to figure out why the program won't go into MultiCam mode. Even when I open a new (empty) video project, I don't have the MultiCam icon.

David

yvon-robert wrote on 3/31/2011, 4:20 PM

Hi,

Check this movie this is in French but give to you all to use multicam.

http://mvd.homevideo.free.fr/tuto_video_multicams/Tuto%20Video%20Multicams.htm

Regards,

YR

DBoydNL wrote on 4/1/2011, 9:33 AM

I appreciate the link to the movie. My wife grew up in France, so she watched it, and tried to figure it out. Near as I can tell from her explanation, the movie does not answer my question. My problem is, that I don't have the Icon with the two camera's. All I have in that center section is a square, "scene overview" and "timeline mode". Then there is a space and I have the film reel for "Change current movie". The two camera icon (Multi Cam Mode) isn't anywhere on my screen. That film also has a small triangle to the right of each track number; I don't have that either.

The film you sent me to, starts out with that icon and those triangles already on the screen. I don't know how to get THAT. If I could get that working, I can probably figure the rest out myself.

In the film, the explanations starts with Importing from F:/Tutorials_Video/Multi_Cams/Capture... That seems to be a directory located on the user's computer, not part of the Program Files. If it is part of the Program Files and I need to load some kind of plug-in or feature, then please start explaining the process by telling me where I can find that.

I have contacted Magix Customer Support to find out why the box my version came in shows the MultiCam icon, but I can't find it. Why the help file on Synchronizing two video objects with the audio track DOES exist, but refers to a topic that does not exist. Why the printed manual does not refer to MultiCam mode. Quite obviously, it will take Magix quite some tiime to answer this question (that has been my experience).

Any insights you have would be very much appreciated.

David